[Fictionary] wodwo ballot

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

Here are ten wodwos, or perhaps wodwoes, in alphabetical order by
definition.  Send me your votes in the usual way by the end of next
Thursday, please!

- Ranjit



wodwo, n -- an Australian anteater related to the numbat but a bit
smaller and rarer.


wodwo, n. A Balinese musical instrument, made of a 10- to 28-inch long
piece of bamboo, 3- to 6-inches in diameter, with metal "strings" from
top to bottom, along about 1/3 of the area.  The left hand damps some
of the strings while the right hand strums all of them.


wodwo - adj. - Deceased on the same day as birth (usually, though not
necessarily, in the same year).


wodwo, n. (Wolof woddwoo) 1. A form of divination practiced in
Senegal, consisting of throwing a number of shea nuts on the floor and
examining the patterns. 2. One who performs this divination.


wodwo. N. Hook used in gutter-hanging.


wodwo (n.) -- An opportunity which one learns about via an
announcement that it will no longer be available.


wodwo - k. - 1. Prestu nayevi ko rehdael nida.  2. Lavroscat.


wodwo, n.  A sapling pruned and shaped to form a live paling.


wodwo - n. (fr. Lapp) - 1. Vodka drunk from the skull of your enemies.
2. (Marian and early Elizabethan mercantile slang) Complete triumph
over an economic rival. 3. (Late Elizabethan and early Stuart court
slang) Humiliation of a court rival.


wodwo, n. (also woodwose) A wild man of the woods; a faun, a satyr or
a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.